• @[email protected]
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    62 hours ago

    Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.

    • @samus12345
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      2 hours ago

      I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 hours ago

        Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.

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          22 hours ago

          Thanks, my google-fu wasn’t up to the task. That’s about what I was expecting.

            • @samus12345
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              11 hour ago

              It has made finding actually useful information harder nowadays, but I’ll still accept the blame for this one.